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"You haven't got to choose You've only got to obey orders"

His face stiffened He looked like so an unanswerable will

" The next tih to remember that I settle what risks are to be taken, not you"

Her soul stiffened, too, and was hard She stood up against hiht," she said "But the next time I'll carry him on my back all the way"

She went to bed with her knowledge He funked and lied The two things she couldn't stand His funk and his lying were a real part of him And it was as if she had always known it, as if all the movee

She opened her eyes So late to bed, had turned on the electric light And as she rolled over, turning her back to the light and to Gwinnie, herin John's face His delight in danger, that happiness he felt when he went out to ht and new every day; that was a real part of him She couldn't doubt it She knew And she was left with her queer, baffled sense of surprise and incompleteness She couldn't see the nature of the bond between these two realities

That was his secret, his mystery